{"id":327198,"date":"2018-08-28T13:52:50","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T20:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=327198"},"modified":"2018-08-28T13:55:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T20:55:22","slug":"23-time-paralympic-medalist-jessica-long-gets-engaged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/23-time-paralympic-medalist-jessica-long-gets-engaged\/","title":{"rendered":"23-Time Paralympic Medalist Jessica Long Gets Engaged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just months after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/13-time-gold-medal-paralympian-jessica-long-releases-autobiography-unsinkable\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">release of her autobiography<\/a> &#8220;Unsinkable,&#8221; 23-time Paralympic medalist\u00a0<strong>Jessica Long<\/strong> announced her engagement to boyfriend <strong>Lucas Winters<\/strong> via her Instagram on August 24:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Bm1vvCKhBU5\/?utm_source=ig_embed\" data-instgrm-version=\"9\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 62.03007518796993% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\">\n<div style=\"background: url(data:image\/png; base64,ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaacwaaaascamaaaapwqozaaaabgdbtueaalgpc\/xhbqaaaafzukdcak7ohokaaaamuexurczmzpf399fx1+bm5mzy9amaaadisurbvdjlvzxbesmgces5\/p8\/t9furvcrmu73jwlzosgsiizurcjo\/ad+eqjjb4hv8bft+idpqocx1wjosbfhh2xssxeiyn3uli\/6mnree07uiwjev8ueowds88ly97kqytlijkktuybbruayvh5wohixmpi5we58ek028czwyuqdlkpg1bkb4nnm+veanfhqn1k4+gpt6ugqcvu2h2ovuif\/gwufyy8owepdyzsa3avcqpvovvzzz2vtnn2wu8qzvjddeto90gsy9mvlqtgysy231mxry6i2ggqjrty0l8fxcxfcbbhwrsyyaaaaaelftksuqmcc); display: block; height: 44px; margin: 0 auto -44px; position: relative; top: -22px; width: 44px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\"><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Bm1vvCKhBU5\/?utm_source=ig_embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">My heart is bursting ?\u2665\ufe0f<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\">A post shared by <a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jessicatatianalong\/?utm_source=ig_embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> | Jessica Long |<\/a> (@jessicatatianalong) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2018-08-23T23:26:05+00:00\">Aug 23, 2018 at 4:26pm PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async defer src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The news comes at the end of a big twelve months for the 26-year-old. In September of last year, Long <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/jessica-long-extends-agreement-with-arena-through-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">extended her contract with arena<\/a> through the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. The Games would mark her fifth-straight Paralympic appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Long has been present in the promotion of the Games, especially in U.S. Paralympics&#8217; celebration of being two years out from Tokyo:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JessicaLong?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JessicaLong<\/a> is eyeing Paralympic Games no. ??! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Tokyo2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Tokyo2020<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Paralympics?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Paralympics<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/2YearsToGo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#2YearsToGo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BBw4t1bBS2\">pic.twitter.com\/BBw4t1bBS2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 U.S. Paralympics (@USParalympics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USParalympics\/status\/1033382533621276672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 25, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Two months after her extension with arena, Long was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/jessica-long-named-to-forbes-30-under-30-class-of-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">named to Forbes&#8217; coveted 30 Under 30<\/a> Team.\u00a0The list presents the country\u2019s top influencers and visionaries under the age of 30 in a variety of categories \u2013 including sports. She was honored among numerous sports stars\u00a0like<strong> Tori Bowie<\/strong> (Track), <strong>Julio Jones<\/strong> (NFL), <strong>Kawhi Leonard<\/strong> (NBA), <strong>Matthew Stafford<\/strong> (NFL) and <strong>Sloane Stephens<\/strong> (Tennis).<\/p>\n<p>Fianc\u00e9 Winters is no stranger to the sports scene &#8211; a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.novaathletics.com\/sports\/msoc\/coaches\/lucuaswinters?view=bio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">former soccer coach<\/a> for Northern Virginia Community College, he also won three national championships as an athlete before starting coaching. He is a graduate of George Mason University in Fairfax, Va.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>NOVA Athletics contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just months after the release of her autobiography &#8220;Unsinkable,&#8221; 23-time Paralympic medalist\u00a0Jessica Long announced her engagement to boyfriend Lucas Winters via her Instagram on August 24: My heart is bursting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":277789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[62076],"tags":[70521,24852,70519,57376,70522,70520],"class_list":["post-327198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paralympics","tag-2020-paralympic-games","tag-jessica-long","tag-lucas-winters","tag-para-swimming","tag-swimming-engagements","tag-u-s-paralympic-swimming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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